Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...technology, it is absolutely necessary to update your computer programs and screen-savers with the image of your high school paramour. According to one lonely Thayer girl, scanning a few photos of her boyfriend (such as pictures of him in his baseball uniform, flexing after circuits in the weight room, and gamboling with his dog) into the computer and tiling his image as permanent wallpaper brighten up late nights of response papers and lab reports...
...recalls the debased impulses of "Lovefool," there is no meek ingenue here. Persson's vocals now bristle with a surprising fury while a guitar whines and cracks in the background like the resurrected ghost of desire. When the striking hook emerges in the expansive chorus, it has epic weight of truth; love is, as the Cardigans insist, the surrender of sanity and the beginning of hard, ambiguous emotions. Again and again the songs return to these dark themes of alienation and pain. Love "kills you, it keeps you alive," Persson purrs menacingly in the slick, jerky "Explode," and she means...
This smooth weight. I labour...
...this was probably exactly what Bartoli wanted. By allowing Hoelterhoff access to the backstage of the opera world, Bartoli had the right to read everything in the book and to have some control over how she was portrayed. Because of this, Hoelterhoff only briefly mentions Bartoli's gradual weight gain and only paints a few unflattering portraits of the pasta-eating mezzo. This is not to say that Hoelterhoff pulled any punches with Bartoli's colleagues. Hoelterhoff seems obsessed with the gargantuan proportions of some of today's most well-known sopranos...
...Three Tonners": Debora Voigt, Sharon Sweet and Jane Eaglen. In her merciless critique, she explains the difficulties of having hugely overweight leads playing believable romantic roles. In one version of La Boheme, with Jane Eaglan as Mimi, the Met had to build a bed that sunk with her weight to help some of the extra bulk. Hoelterhoff fills the chapter out with a mock "Diva Diet," which begins with a slice of toast for breakfast and ends with an "entire frozen Sara Lee cheesecake" for a late-night snack...